Mushroom

Mushroom

A mushroom is the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body of a fungus, typically produced above ground on soil or on its food source. The standard for the name "mushroom" is the cultivated white button mushroom, Agaricus bisporus; hence the word "mushroom" is most often applied to those fungi that...

s can be used to create color dyes.

Mushroom	Color inducer	Color created
Chanterelle Chanterelle Cantharellus cibarius, commonly known as the chanterelle, golden chanterelle or girolle, is a fungus. It is probably the best known species of the genus Cantharellus, if not the entire family of Cantharellaceae. It is orange or yellow, meaty and funnel-shaped...	ammonia	dull yellow
Artist's conk Ganoderma applanatum Ganoderma applanatum is a bracket fungus with a cosmopolitan distribution.The spore bodies are up to 30-40 cm across, hard, woody-textured, and...	ammonia	rust
Horse mushroom	salt water	yellowish green
Meadow mushroom	salt water	yellowish green
Turkey tail	ammonia	color depends on fungi's color
Shaggy Mane	iron pot ammonia	greyish-green
King bolete	ammonia	redish-yellow
Maitake	ammonia	light yellow
Chicken of the woods	ammonia	orange
Giant puffball Giant puffball Calvatia gigantea, commonly known as the Giant puffball, is a puffball mushroom commonly found in meadows, fields, and deciduous forests worldwide usually in late summer and autumn. It is common throughout Europe and North America.-Description:...	ammonia	dark red
Lobster mushroom Lobster mushroom Lobster mushroom is not a mushroom, but rather a parasitic ascomycete that grows on mushrooms, turning them a reddish orange color that resembles the outer shell of a cooked lobster. It colonizes members of the genera Lactarius and Russula, such as Russula brevipes and Lactarius piperatus in...	ammonia	pinkish red
Reishi	ammonia	rust
Blewit	ammonia	green

The shingled hedgehog mushroom

Sarcodon imbricatus

Sarcodon imbricatus, commonly known as the shingled hedgehog or scaly hedgehog, is a species of tooth fungus in the order Thelephorales. The mushroom itself is edible. Many sources report it has a bitter taste, but others have found it delicious and suspect that the bitter specimens may be similar...

 (Sarcodon imbricatus) and related species contain blue-green pigments, which are used for dyeing wool in Norway. The fruiting body of hydnellum peckii

Hydnellum peckii

Hydnellum peckii is an inedible fungus, and a member of the genus Hydnellum of the family Bankeraceae. It is a hydnoid species, producing spores on the surface of vertical spines or tooth-like projections that hang from the undersurface of the fruit bodies. It is found in North America, Europe, and...

can be used to produce a beige colour when no mordant

Mordant

A mordant is a substance used to set dyes on fabrics or tissue sections by forming a coordination complex with the dye which then attaches to the fabric or tissue. It may be used for dyeing fabrics, or for intensifying stains in cell or tissue preparations. The term mordant comes from the Latin...

 is used, and shades of blue or green depending on the mordant added. P. schweinitzii

Phaeolus schweinitzii

Phaeolus schweinitzii, commonly known as velvet-top fungus, dyer's polypore,Norway Chicken, or dyer's mazegill, is a fungal plant pathogen that causes butt rot on conifers such as Douglas-fir, spruce, fir, hemlock, pine, and larch. P...

produces green, yellow, gold, or brown colours, depending on the material dyed and the mordant

Mordant

A mordant is a substance used to set dyes on fabrics or tissue sections by forming a coordination complex with the dye which then attaches to the fabric or tissue. It may be used for dyeing fabrics, or for intensifying stains in cell or tissue preparations. The term mordant comes from the Latin...

used.